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Over the past couple of years, I've read
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just getting on for a hundred books and
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I've compiled a list of some of the
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favorite books that I've read. This is a
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book about the decline of the internet.
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So, if you've ever felt as though your
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experience of the internet, of social
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media isn't anything like as good as it
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used to be, this book will comfort you.
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It will soothe you and it will help you
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vent your anger as it did for me. This
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book by uh Ben Chu, the former economics
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editor at News Night, tracks some of the
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ramifications of the huge changes to
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globalization and trading policy that
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could be brought about by the Trump
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administration. Looks at how valuable
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global trade is and what's at stake if
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we lose the kind of trade relationships
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that we've had. So my next one is an
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autobiography of a business leader who
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uh used to be the CEO of Prudential and
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Credit Swiss and where he was ultimately
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ousted from Credit Swiss. A lot of
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business autobiographies are pretty
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boring, but this autobiography is
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anything but boring. His father was a
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government minister who ended up serving
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time in prison. It's a hugely
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interesting tale. Okay, so my next book
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is one about global growth policy by New
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York Times columnist Ezra Klene and he's
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writing it with Derek Thompson. I guess
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it's a book that comes out of an era of
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low growth where people feel as though
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the economy isn't working for them.
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Governments aren't getting things done.
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It's sort of a vision for how a future
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economy could look. There's a lot of uh
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doomerism out there, but this is a
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pretty optimistic book. There have been
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tons of books about AI the past couple
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of years. There's really no point you
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reading more than one or two books about
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AI. So, if you're going to read one book
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about AI, I would recommend this one.
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It's a really dramatic book, but it also
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helps paint a picture of how the nason
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AI industry has developed over the past
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couple of years. And my favorite uh
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business book is perhaps one of the most
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sort of revoly and dramatic that I've
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read. It's by someone called Sarah Win
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Williams who was a senior manager inside
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uh Facebook now called Meta. And as you
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can judge by the name of the title, she
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doesn't have very pleasant things to say
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about the company. It's a pretty
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devastating book, but it's a really
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fascinating book as to how this company
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has been run. Decisions which are pretty
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jaw-dropping when you compare them to
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the way the company talks about itself.
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If you want to know what's really going
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on inside meta, this is the book for
